Section: US & Canada

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A group of Ukrainian hackers worked with securities traders in the U.S. to make $30 million by breaking into the computers of companies that put out corporate press releases and trading on the information before it was made public, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Prosecutors in New Jersey and New York City, along with...

“I do not know if the people would vote for superior men if they ran for office,” Tocqueville once noted, “but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” How easily those words spring to mind this summer in Britain. Here the opposition Labour party is voting for a new leader to replace Ed Miliband following its worst general election result...

A group of Ukrainian hackers worked with securities traders in the U.S. to make $30 million by breaking into the computers of companies that put out corporate press releases and trading on the information before it was… …read more Source: WAVE 3...

Dutch prosecutors from a joint international criminal investigation into the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine say some of the debris recovered from the site may belong to a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile system. …read more Source: Christian Science...

Federal authorities made arrests this morning in a case involving an alleged insider trading ring that hacked several thousand press releases containing market-moving information. The indictment, which has been seen by Business Insider, names five defendants: Ivan Turchynov (Ukrainian resident/alleged hacker) Oleksandr Ireemenko (Ukranian...

Investigators probing last year’s downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine have found fragments that may have come from a Russian surface-to-air missile. Dutch prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that the investigators from Belgium, Australia, Ukraine, Malaysia and the Netherlands who are conducting the criminal...

Fragments of a suspected Russian missile system have been found at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site in Ukraine, Dutch investigators said Tuesday. The parts are thought to be from a Buk surface-to-air system — the type of system investigators suspect was used to down the plane, CNN …read more Source: The Washington...

Russia’s economy shrank by 4.6 percent in the second quarter of 2015 compared to the same period last year according to the country’s official statistics office Rosstat. This represents a contraction of more than twice the size of the one reported for the first quarter of 2015 (2.2 percent) and marks Russia’s worst recession...